Meaning of outbudding | Babel Free

Definitions

A bud; a new outgrowth that is beginning to develop.

Examples

“The tendency of modern science is to close this gate—though it can never stop the search for it—the vague desire after some kind of communication, some kind of poetic identification with the soul that reveals itself through the rolling year, the mysterious presence that is felt to lie behind the outbuddings of spring, the wealth and greenery of summer, with all its whisperings and music and rippling laughter, the blue of autumn, with its fruitage, its expansive horizons, its glory veiling temporary decay.”

“The sprouts proliferate and canalize to form the lactiferous ducts and the outbuddings form the alveoli of the mammary glands.”

“Beetle horns differe in that they (1) appear not to be specified during embryonic development, (b) grow from the start as three-dimensional epidermal outbuddings, (c) have their growth confined to the relatively brief prepupal stage (~ 48 h), and (d) as they grow, evaginate into the space between epidermis and larval cuticle (Moczek, 2006a; Fig. 6.3B).”

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